Cambodian court convicts two Lao drug traffickers

PHNOM PENH, April 5 (Xinhua) -- The Phnom Penh Municipal Court on Thursday convicted two Lao men of drug trafficking and sentenced one of them to 7 years and the other to 5 years in jail, according to a verdict read by presiding judge Duch Kimsorn.
Sak Keo, 30, was sentenced to 7 years in prison and Koeung Sen, 52, was jailed for 5 years. The court also fined the convicts 2, 500 U.S. dollars each.
According to the verdict, a Cambodian man Sean Borath, 43, who was also implicated in the drug trafficking case, was sentenced to 7 years in jail and fined 2,500 U.S. dollars.
The men were arrested on August 22 last year in Phnom Penh by police at the National Authority for Combating Drugs.
During the crackdown, the police had seized about 2,000 methamphetamine pills and materials for drug use.
Under Cambodia's law, the convicts have one month to appeal against the verdict.